By the end of the story, Jem develops into a compassionate, gentle adolescent who sympathizes with Scout and Boo Radley. Similarly, Scout’s ability to keep her composure and understand her community illustrates her maturation. Both siblings also learn the importance of protecting innocent, vulnerable beings.
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How do Jem and Scout change during the course of the novel How do they remain the same?
By the end of the story, Jem develops into a compassionate, gentle adolescent who sympathizes with Scout and Boo Radley. Similarly, Scout’s ability to keep her composure and understand her community illustrates her maturation. Both siblings also learn the importance of protecting innocent, vulnerable beings.
What does JEM stop Scout from doing?
At the start of chapter 25, Jem stops Scout from killing a roly-poly bug. When Scout asks why Jem tells her that it is just a defenseless creature that means nobody any harm. He tells her that she should put it out on the back steps instead. This occurs shortly after they have learned that Tom Robinson has been killed.
What is the conflict between Miss Caroline and scout?
Scout’s main conflict with Miss Caroline is that her teacher does not try to understand her or Maycomb before making a judgement. Miss Caroline’s problem with Scout is that she doesn’t understand her, and she is in way over her head. She is a new young teacher, “no more than twenty-one,” and she is new to Maycomb too.
How does JEM die in To Kill a Mockingbird?
Jem’s death Scout’s older brother and companion throughout To Kill a Mockingbird dropped dead a few years before the beginning of Watchman. The event is first mentioned off-handedly by the grown Jean Louise in Chapter 1, and then explained deeper in the novel. Jem died of a sudden heart attack at age 28.
What is Scout and Jem’s relationship?
Jem and Scout are brother and sister, and are Atticus Finch’s only children. Their mother died of natural causes when Scout was little. On the whole, the two get along fairly well. They serve as co-conspirators and playmates throughout the book.
Did JEM kill Bob Ewell?
On the night of the Halloween pageant Bob follows the children home and attacks them but Boo saves Jem and Scout but fatally stabs Bob Ewell. Atticus is convinced Jem killed Bob Ewell but Heck Tate (the sheriff) points out that Jem isn’t strong enough and after Bob broke his arm he wouldn’t have been able to stab him.
How are Jem and Scout similar?
Jem and Scout are very much alike when it comes to role playing. They enjoy the drama. Scout is a tomboy who proves she is just as equal to Jem: A tomboy most frequently clad in overalls, Scout spends much of her time with her older brother Jem and is constantly trying to prove herself his equal.